Package: lilo Version: 1:24.2-4 Severity: minor Tags: patch Dear Maintainer,
the compressed patch is in the attachment (uncompressed 722 lines).
Main issues:
Input file is lilo.conf.5
mandoc: Remove whitespace at end of input file
mandoc: lilo.conf.5:990:4: STYLE: unterminated quoted argument
mandoc: lilo.conf.5:695:1: WARNING: skipping paragraph macro: sp after LP
mandoc: lilo.conf.5:1066:1: WARNING: skipping paragraph macro: sp after LP
mandoc: lilo.conf.5:1065:2: WARNING: skipping paragraph macro: LP empty
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Change 'b' to 'B' for a byte
Always use a (unpaddable or no-break) space between a number and an
unit (except if it is an input to a command, that prohibis that).
394:high in memory as possible, but never above 15Mb. This is due to a BIOS
396:memory above 15Mb (up to a kernel imposed limit, around 768Mb) for
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Use \&.\|.\|.\& to represent an ellipsis (or define a string, e.g. 'EL'
for it).
531:The per-image option `password=...' (see below) applies to all images. This
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Reduce space between words.
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Use "\e" to print the escape character instead of "\\" (which gets
interpreted in copy mode).
727:in more lines using "\\" as last character of a line, e.g.
750:using "\\" as last character of a line. See example of addappend option.
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Use the word (in)valid instead of (il)legal if not related to legal matters.
See "www.gnu.org/prep/standards".
477:Legal color-scheme strings would be
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Find a repeated word
! 258 --> be
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Add a comma (or \&) after "e.g." and "i.e.", or use English words
(man-pages(7) [package "manpages"]).
191:Sets the name of the device (e.g. hard disk or partition) that contains
350:(e.g. PC/MS-DOS) are using the same disk, they may change the
359:tracks. Also, with some disks (e.g. some large EIDE disks with address
581:less secure than access to the console, e.g. if the line is connected
727:in more lines using "\\" as last character of a line, e.g.
758:Like `append', but removes all other options (e.g. setting of the root
772:file system read-write later (e.g. after fsck'ing it).
1003:option, the next reboot (e.g.
1051:are specified on the command line (e.g. 'single'). May be used
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Add a missing left italic correction after \fI or use a macro
683: \fBimage=\fP\fI<pathname>\fP
690: \fBother=\fP\fI<device>\fP
701: \fBrange=\fP\fI<start>-<end>\fP
702: \fBrange=\fP\fI<start>+<nsec>\fP
703: \fBrange=\fP\fI<sector>\fP
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Remove superfluous quotation marks (") from the argument of a
single-font macro.
78:.I "boot:"
455:.I "install="
486:.I "menu"
715:.B "append="
719:.B "append="
722:.B "addappend="
876:.I "automatic"
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Rephrase the beginning of a sentence, if it starts with a digit (see a
style manual).
593:extended rates 19200, 38400, and 57600(56000). 115200 is allowed, but may
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The name of a man page is set in bold and the section in roman (see
man-pages(7)).
29:is read by the boot loader installer 'lilo' (see lilo(8)).
755:drivers. See man pages for \fImkinitrd(8)\fP.
841:the rdev(8) program.)
1068:lilo(8), mkinitrd(8), mknod(1), mkrescue(8), rdev(8).
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500,
'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.144-1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=is_IS.iso88591, LC_CTYPE=is_IS.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1),
LANGUAGE=is_IS.iso88591 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages lilo depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.69
ii dpkg 1.19.2
ii libc6 2.28-5
ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.155-1
ii perl 5.28.1-3
lilo recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lilo suggests:
ii e2fsprogs 1.44.5-1
-- debconf information:
* lilo/diskid_uuid: true
lilo/runme: false
* lilo/new-config:
lilo/add_large_memory: false
--
Bjarni I. Gislason
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